I'm Cora Michelston, a normal, dark haired, pale skinned teen. I was enjoying time with my three best friends, Mizani Sones, Bianica Mills, and Violette Waters. "Hey, I have an idea..." Mizani grinned slyly. "Ever heard of the Slender Man?" "Who?" I asked. "SLENDER MAN." Mizani replied, annoyed that I didn't know about this "Slender Man". "He's this really tall guy, no face, it's just blank. He has tentacles coming from his back. Also he's a stalker and a murderer..." Mizani continued, black, shiny hair with a neon blue streak waved. "I've seen him myself!" "He's not real, it's just a crazy myth." Bianica stated, shoving her blonde hair into a ponytail. I asked Mizani to tell me more of Slenderman. She told me that sometimes he writes notes to the people he's stalking. He EATS his victims. Slender Sickness. And Slender Walking. "I've had Slender Sickness...I barfed allot, I had memory loss and SO MUCH PARANOIA!...Slender has stalked me for over a year, and I became amune to the sickness, but sometimes I get memory loss, I don't worry about it anymore. Hakuna Matata!" "Hakuna Matata," we started singing. "It means no worries-for the rest of your days, Hakuna Matata! What a wonderful phrase It's our problem-free philosophy, Hakuna Matata!" ************************* I beamed at my friends. They grinned back. Oddly, I felt like someone was watching us. I turned my head... My heart pounded out of my chest. My ears started ringing. My breath became deeper. It was him. The Slender Man.

"Guys," I whispered, I was shaking violently. "There's uh- it's h-him!" We turned our heads. Standing under an old tree, a tall, skinny man with a blank face stared at us. We blinked. He was gone. Suddenly I felt like I was about to throw up. We glared at each other and seconds later we sprinted to Violette's house, the nearest home. Bianica burst through the door first. Violette. Me. Mizani was last. She glanced behind her. The thin creature stood not fifteen feet away from her. Mizani dashed inside. Violette did not want to go outside nor did the rest of us. Her sister Emily arrived into the room. "We just saw-..." Violette's words trailed off. Violette begged her parents to let them sleep over. "Since it's Friday... I guess so. I'll go call you parents" Mrs. Waters smiled and held her cellphone to her ear. Violette led us to her room. She unrolled some sleeping bags. "We could be seeing things." I yawned. Slowly, we drifted to sleep. I dreamed that Slender captured us and we tried to escape. But then he found us near a neighborhood. He took us back to the forest. I woke up. The sun was peaking through the treetops. It was 9:00. Bianica sat up. "I had a dream that Slenderman captured us, we escaped. But he found us again, a brought us to his home and he tried to kill us."

Violette awoken, and yawned, "I dreamt there was this note that said in crimson ink, possibly blood 'Always watches. No eyes.'... Weird, let's see if Mizzy dreamt the same." Vi nudged Mizani. She moaned sleepily and groaned, "Tryin' to sleep ova here, man!" She lay back down into her warm, soft comfy sleeping bag. "What did you dream about?" I asked. "About some crazy girls running through the forest. Something chasing them. Yadayadayada."

The fog on the backyard was beautiful. We sat on the porch drinking coffee. The trees created a silhoutte in the grey misty fog. They were long and thin. Suddenly a tree moved from one spot to another. Weird. Mizani's cell had static, Bianica felt sick. So did I. Violette shrieked. There. Standing right smack dab in the middle of the yard was him. In shock, we backed up slowly.

"Scared you all, didn't I?"

Slenderman, was speaking to us?! What? I stiffened. I could not stop staring into that endless blank face. Violette shuttered, "P-please don't kill us." The creature glared at her. "Why on Earth would I want to do anything like that?" Slenderman flicked her chin with his long, black tentacle. "Liar." Her mind urged to scream, but she held it back. Than he gazed at ME! "My, you look like someone I met before." I knew who he was talking about... My cousin, Jay. She disappeared in 2008 in my town. She was never found. HE TOOK HER. I tried to hold back tears, knowing that my cousin was murdered by Slenderman. His tentacles smoothed my blue-streaked hair. I couldn't pull away. "Leave Cora alone!" Mizani stood up. Suddenly she bit her lip, knowing what she just yelled. Slender walking, over to my friend growled, "You do not tell me what to do, little Mizani Jane Sones." Face to face with Slenderman, we all felt our eyelids grow heavy.